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  1. May 2024
    1. Harvard psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, a co-president of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard, wrote in the Boston Globe that when a university releases a political statement, “inevitably there will be constituencies who feel a statement is too strong, too weak, too late, or wrongheaded.”A university, Pinker wrote, should be “a forum for debate, not a protagonist in debates.”

      Debate is to uncover the truth. If the truth is always debated, there will be no progress. Debate must be based on truth.

  2. Jun 2020
  3. Jul 2018
    1. In other words, there is no neutral observation.

      Similar to the objectivism/subjectivism divide and social construction of truth/positivist scientific method.

      Part of meditative practices is sometimes a focus of the mind, or an absence and an "insistent" self. Perhaps it's simply quieting part of the questioning mind in order to make room for a better side, but maybe it's about removing one's preconceived notions.

    2. The implication (contrary to psychophysics) is that mind-to-world processes drive perception rather than world-to-mind processes.

      Maybe both? Causal feedback.